About CSF

Cell Structure and Function was launched in 1975 to serve the international molecular and cell biology communities. The journal is fully Open Access, and authors benefit from rapid peer review and a large global audience.

Aims and Scope

Cell Structure and Function publishes important, original contributions in all areas of molecular and cell biology. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts on research areas such as the cell nucleus, chromosomes, and gene expression; the cytoskeleton and cell motility; cell adhesion and the extracellular matrix; cell growth, differentiation and death; signal transduction; the protein life cycle; membrane traffic; and organelles.

The journal publishes five article types: Full Articles, Short Communications, Mini-Reviews and Reviews, Technical Notes and Perspectives. Full Articles and Short Communications report original research not published elsewhere. The remaining article types can be summaries of previous research, but must add important insight or a fresh perspective.

The audience of Cell Structure and Function includes research scientists in academia or industry who work on cell biology or related life sciences, individuals working on the application of research in these fields, clinicians, students and other interested individuals. The journal strives to be an important outlet for the publication of excellent research and an essential part of communication in molecular and cell biology.

English standard

Manuscripts should be written in clear, grammatically correct English. Author(s) whose native language is not English are strongly encouraged to have their manuscript checked by a native English speaker or by services such as those at INLEXIO prior to submission. If a manuscript is not clear due to poor English, it may be rejected without undergoing peer review.

Journal data

Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board

The Editorial Board comprises an Editor-in-Chief and an Editorial Board of experts in cell and molecular biology from around the world. THe Editor-in-Chief is Hiderou Yoshida, who is Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo in Japan.

Editorial and peer review process

The Editor-in-Chief allocates submitted manuscripts to an Associate Editor, who acts as the Monitoring Editor in charge of peer review. The Monitoring Editor selects two appropriate reviewers to provide their assessment of the manuscript. Once their reviews have been received, the Monitoring Editor decides whether the manuscript requires revision. Authors who are asked to revise their manuscript must do so within two months, otherwise it will be treated as a new submission. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on each manuscript based on the Monitoring Editor’s recommendation.

Scientific and publication ethics

Cell Structure and Function has a range of journal policies on authorship, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, experimentation, image integrity, unoriginal material and more, which are detailed in the Instructions to Authors. The journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines to manage cases of potential ethical concern.

Publication fee

To support the Open Access publication of Cell Structure and Function, the journal charges a modest publication fee (Article Processing Charge) of ¥100,000 for all article types except commissioned Reviews and Mini-reviews, which are free to publish.